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John Liptak
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| 06/10/2006 12:58 AM |
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Hi, ive just purchased UPG. I would like to make some suggestions;
1) Rember the rotation of each photo. Currently, when you rotate a photo, its rotation is not rememberred. Is it possible to store the rotation details in the database so that when the photo is viewed the next time, its rotation is correct?
2) The "Created Date" field on each photo, should be set to the date the picture was taken (If the info is in the file). Most digital camera's record these details against the image. When the photo is uploaded, is it possible to extract the "Camera Model" & "Date Picture Taken".
3) In the "Album List" i would like to be able to get a normal listing of the albums with the ability to sort by Title, Description and Created Date,
4) Your web link - I would like to have the option to remove your web link.
5) A colour picker would be nice on the gallery settings page - perhaps using an icon beside each colour setting.
6) The ability to download the Full Size image. Currently, when you download a photo, its about 32k in size, I would like to be able to share the full size photo with friends so they can print themselves.
7) Email the photo. I thought that the email option was to send the photo to someone. I was wrong. I would like to have the ability to email a photo (both small & original size) to any email address.
At the moment, when i receive an email all I get is this.. "Interesting photo from mywebsite" and the body contains what i typed in. Am i missing something here?. Should there at least be a link to the photo?
Thanks
John
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/12/2006 10:23 AM |
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1. I'll consider this feature, but I think it is useless, in most situation, the final user don't need to rotate every photo.
2. I'll try to include this feature.
3. You mean enable the final user to sort albums in Album List ? I'll consider this feature.
4. Yes, I'll add an option to hide it.
5. Currently there is already an color picker in every color setting option.
6. Please turn off "Yes, automatically resize" option in Album Edit page, then your original photo will not be resized.
7. Good idea, I'll consider it.
And the link to the photo is at the bottom of the notification email, can't you see it?
Thanks for your suggestion! |
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Pengtsen R
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John Liptak
Posts:34
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| 06/12/2006 9:41 PM |
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Thanks for the response.
Rotation: I have to disagree with you about the rotation feature being useless. Almost 50% of my photo's are portraits. This means that the user must rotate half the photo's to view them correctly... whats even worse is that they need to keep rotating every time the photo is re-displayed.
We do a lot of work with wedding photographers who like to show their customers the photo's before they are printed. It is very annoying for the customers to have to keep rotating the same photo every time!.
What I would like to do as administrator is to set each photo to the correct position and then disable the rotation feature for end users.
Album Sort: Yes, i would like the user to be able to sort the album list.
Colour Picker: Does not work in Firefox
Thanks for your other replies. I'll try & turn off the photo re-size feature and test it out. Cheers.
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/12/2006 11:57 PM |
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Rotation: I think adding a feature to rotate your photos when upload it is a better solution, do you think so? that means same of your photos will be rotated and saved to file system. your final users don't have to rotate it in display time.
Album Sort: I'll consider this suggestion.
Colour Picker: Yes, I do know that, but havn't got the reason.
Thanks for your suggestions, I really appreciate it. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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John Liptak
Posts:34
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| 06/13/2006 6:26 AM |
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Hi rogers,
Thanks for getting back so quick
Rotation: With the rotation, its hard to do it during
file upload, because someone actually needs to look at the photo to
determine what its orientation shoud be. And also, not all photo's
need rotation.
This means that you could not do it as a bulk upload.
In google's picasa photo software, you'll notice that any changes
including rotation are stored in an .ini file. When the photo is
re-displayed, the software reads the .ini settings and displays the
photo based on those settings. See sample google ini file below.
[IMG_3130.jpg]
rotate=rotate(1)
This same sort of processing could easily be acheived in your
software. Without knowing terribly much about the underlying software
or code, here is what could be done;
1) Alter table dnn_BizModules_UPG_Photo to add the column Rotation;
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[dnn_BizModules_UPG_Photo](
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[Rotation] [Int] NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_BizModules_UPG_Photo] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ......)
2) During photo upload - (either single photo or bulk) set the [Rotation] to 0
3) During photo view - Read the table and use [Rotation] to determine how many times the photo should be rotated clockwise.
4) When the photo is rotated, set the value [Rotation] up by 1. If the [Rotation] value hits 4, then reset it back to 0. The 4th rotation resets it back to its original orientation.
5) As an addition, you could also add a reverse rotation
button. (Sometimes a photo needs to be rotated 3 times clockwise to
get the correct position. It would be easier to rotate
counter-clockwise once instead of clockwise 3 times. If you intend to
implement this then the logic at point "4" will need slight alteration).
Notes:
During photo viewing, only the Admin, Host or other secure roles
should have the rotation settings recorded in the database. In other words, for
anonymous or unsecured users, they can still rotate the photo but the
changes should not be made to the database permanently. However, the
users rotation settings could be remembered in cache (if possible) just
in case they do want to rotate.
Basically, what i am trying to acheive is to let the end user view
photo's with ease. No need to rotate, just sit back and let the
slideshow begin without having to tilt your head every second photo.
Since all the photo's are now set to the correct orientation, the end
user has 1 less button they need to press.
Thanks. Let me know what you think.
Cheers
John Liptak
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/13/2006 8:42 AM |
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Your suggestion is very cool! but the security in flash swf is hard to control.
What do you think about this way:
In Album Moderation page, there is already a checkbox before every photo, currently you can select bulk photos and delete them in single operation. maybe I can put a rotate button here and allow admin users to rotate bulk photos after previewing photo thumbnails?
Thanks. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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John Liptak
Posts:34
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| 06/13/2006 8:38 PM |
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yes, this will work very nicely!. Do you think this feature will make it to the next release?.
Also, I have heard that version 3 is coming (somewhere in these fourms). Do you know the expected release date & feature list?
Cheers
John Liptak
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/13/2006 9:44 PM |
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I think this feature will likely be included in next version. however, I'm still collecting new features in next version and don't have a time table about when to release it.
Thanks. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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